[AISWorld] Reminder - Call for Papers: IFIP 9.4 - Resilient ICT4D

[Silvia Masiero]

Dear Colleagues,


Hope you are well. Please find below a kind reminder of the Call for Papers
for the IFIP 9.4 Conference on *Resilient ICT4D*, taking place virtually on
26-28 May. Papers, both full (max. 5000 words) and research-in-progress
(max. 2500 words), are due on *30 March*.


All the best,


Silvia



*Call for Papers - 1st IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference: Resilient ICT4D*


The COVID-19 emergency has posed a heavy burden on health infrastructures
in the developing world. As an unprecedented crisis, the pandemic has had
severe social, redistributional and economic impacts on vulnerable groups,
affecting the development processes that the IFIP Working Group 9.4 on
Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development has
traditionally dealt with. With the new disease posing a development
challenge for all nations, a *global* development paradigm (Oldenkop et
al., 2020) emerged in studying responses to it. In the spirit of “making a
better world” with ICTs that characterises the ethos of ICT4D (Walsham,
2012), engagements with such responses have interested our research during
the pandemic.


At the same time, ICT4D research on topics different from the ongoing
crisis is itself influenced by the pandemic in diverse ways. Planning and
conducting fieldwork in the forms we knew it became impracticable, with
researchers having to resort to alternative ways to access respondents and
field sites. Conferencing, and with it the interactions that are crucial to
our academic growth have abruptly moved to the digital world, with new
affordances (such as abating barriers of cost and travel) but also new
constraints, connected to the digital recreation of a traditionally
physical world. Resilience, seen with Heeks and Ospina (2019) as the
ability of systems to cope with external shocks and trends, became crucial
to us as ICT4D colleagues, both in the conduct of research and in the
interactional aspects of our lives as academic community.


Against this backdrop, a Resilient ICT4D is what has emerged from the
COVID-19 crisis, and the theme inspiring our Virtual IFIP 9.4 Conference on
Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development to
take place on 26-28 May 2021. While pertaining to themes of ICT4D research
in and beyond the pandemic, the tracks in the conference are underpinned by
the need for a resilient attitude that, in the face of one of the greatest
shocks ever suffered by humanity, keeps alive the spirit of “making a
better world” with ICTs.


*Papers for IFIP 9.4 2021*


Papers for the IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference should be formatted according to
the template
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J3NQ6Qd_AZnYCagJhwKMWRmBkksCM8gU> for
submissions to IFIP 9.4 conferences. Please note the word limits for full
research papers (5000 words for text excluding abstract, diagrams, tables
and references) and for research in progress/practitioner reports of
experience and reflection (2500 words for text excluding abstract,
diagrams, tables and references).


Submissions should be sent to ifip94conference at gmail.com by the deadline of *30
March 2021*. Please indicate “IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference” in the subject
line, and please ensure the email text specifies names, contact emails and
affiliations for all authors, as well as the track to which the paper is
submitted.


*Timeline*


·       *10 January 2021– Deadline for Track Proposals*

·       *15 January 2021– Tracks Announced*

·       *30 March 2021 – Papers Due*

·       *30 April 2021 – Reviews Due*

·       *5 May 2021 – Notification to Authors*

·       *20 May 2021 –  Revision Due for Papers Accepted with Mandatory
Changes*

·       *26-28 May 2021 –  IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference*

Find here the full *track descriptions*
<https://ifip94.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/call-for-papers-1st-ifip-9-4-virtual-conference-resilient-ict4d/>
for
IFIP 9.4 2021